Pilar cuder-domínguez, ed. 2014. genre in english literature, 1650-1700: transitions in drama and fiction. amherst, ny: cambria press
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Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, ed. 2014. Genre in English Literature, 1650-1700: Transitions in
Drama and Fiction. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press
SEDERI Yearbook, núm. 25, 2015, pp. 175-180
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Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, ed. 2014
Genre in Englísh Literafure, I650-I7oo:
Transifions in Drama and Fíefion
Amherst, NY: Cambria Press
Jonalhan SeH
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain
The litle of lhis coHection of seven essays ediled by Pilar CuderDomínguez is alubitious in scope, its subtitle, despite excluding
poetry, only slighlly less so. Tilles are tricky lhings and often have lo
be negotialed wilh publishers (an earlier lille for this coHection,
Critical Explomtions of Genre in English Literatllre, 1650-1700, appears
ghost-like on p. xi); yet on the whole, the book manages to chew
most of what it bites off, which is no mean feal. It unpicks whal
Cuder-Domínguez terms in her brief Introduction the -neat
evolutionary pattern- (ix-x) into which critics, sights sel firmly on
lhe eighleenlh cenlury, generaHy shoe-horn lilerature of lhe second
half of the seventeenth century; it throws much new and fascinating
light onto Restoration dranla; and it corroborates the in1portance of
female agency, whether as author, reader or protagonist, in the
gradual elnergence of the novel. Indeed, five of the contributions
nlake a convincing case fay the need to appraise issues of genre in
fiction and drama alike from the pe...

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